Cisco protects managers and long-tenured staff, by any means, no matter what, and justifies their bullying or harassing behaviors. That's what HR and Ethics do.
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Wrong you mean Maria and Gerri were hired at the same time.
From a senior leadership perspective, it is highly beneficial to surround oneself with diverse ethnicities and females. Any claims brought up the chain will potentially need to be vetted by leadership that they themselves are non-male in the decision chain on assessing harassment claims. If you think about it, it is a genius way to put oneself in a cocoon of insulated wealth, by surrounding yourself with others to buffer all the HR noise?
In any company, new key senior positions are filled by the personal referrals of others already in place as leaders within in the organization. The same holds true for government roles. Regretfully, not everyone has the references and recommendations to become eligible for roles within these smaller circles of senior leadership. Once part of a leadership team; a vigilant HR organization is necessary to insulate the senior team from distractions away from critical business decisionmaking. Think about being in these lifeblood roles for the company; essentially a necessity for HR to focus on this space, which often gets construed as protectionism. It is just business.
Working for Cisco is only a job, Cisco will never get you rich. You are a working poor having a job at Cisco.
True inventor of layer 2 switching is founder of 3com, true inventor of layer 3 routing is founder of WellFleet communications, these two guys made too much money 30 years ago and closed down their companies
Many employees worked for 3Com and WellFleet spun off had their own startup companies eventually got sold to Cisco
Cisco itself has no talent, had been a copycat machine since day 1
Ditto. Not entirely true. To cut costs, many long tenured staff were laid off.
With that said, the VPs and above do get special treatment/protection.
Get voice record, best is s-xual harassment.
Threat the company you will report to country authorities, in my country, several managers are gone by this.
True on both accounts. Long tenured folks LR'd UK CX managers. Note, I didn't use the term leaders as they are not fit to be called leaders. All part of the bully brigade.
Agree 100%. Open up a harassment case with HR and the first thing they do is unleash a “consultant “ on you to try and bully you to protect the company from getting sued. That is their modus operandi . Speaking from experience of a female who was harassed by her white, British manager.
Except for large numbers of old people, many of whom are management and long-tenured staff.
It's the coffee. They must be putting stupid in the coffee.
not true. some long tenured staff got laid off recently.